1. Thank you for agreeing to speak at our National meeting. We look forward to hearing you.

2. National meetings cater for a broad audience, and only a minority will be specialists in your field, so please be careful with the more technical material. In particular, a large number of equations can be difficult to follow in a short talk, so please only use equations when they are really necessary.

3. A good model for a Society talk is to spend a roughly comparable time on:

• why you did the work (main motivation and background)
• how you did it (essentials of the method)
• what you found (main results)
• what it means (main conclusions)

4. Please always show a Summary slide.

5. You will be asked to provide a short abstract to advertise your talk approximately one month before the meeting. Please feel free to include a figure.

6. Timing: it is good practice to allow 2 minutes or more per slide to allow the audience to absorb it. Please also allow 5 minutes for discussion. We normally take questions at the end of each talk.

7. Please do all you can to make your talk audible and visible right to the back of a fairly large lecture theatre.

• We will provide microphones but you should still face the audience and speak clearly and not too fast. Remember that the partially deaf and non-native English speakers need to see your lips move.
• Keep the complexity of graphs to the minimum but label everything. Remember that red/green colour-blindness is quite common.
• Please spell out each acronym at least once.

8. We would greatly appreciate it if you could find time to show your talk to a colleague before the meeting to get feedback on clarity and timing.

9. There is no dress code.